ArchiCAD East ?

[Anonymous]

Hello

Several french user (using PC) trying to connect to the ArchiCAD East blog had report an alert about trojan horse virus.

Some fresh news about this site ?

[vistasp]

lec1212 wrote:
Only took about 15 minutes to download zip of lcf. which was nice.
Wonder why it took Barry three hours??

Wow, that must be a pretty fast connection you have!

As I recall, it took me a lot longer than three hours when I first downloaded it. Also, with a torrent, you're dependant on the availability and upload speed of your seeds & peers.

[Anonymous]

vistasp wrote:

lec1212 wrote:
Only took about 15 minutes to download zip of lcf. which was nice.
Wonder why it took Barry three hours??

Wow, that must be a pretty fast connection you have! 😎

As I recall, it took me a lot longer than three hours when I first downloaded it. Also, with a torrent, you're dependant on the availability and upload speed of your seeds & peers.

Hi Vistasp

Must have been lucky with the "speed of seeds and peers", because I only have one upgrade level from basic residential dsl.
However we're in residential area, and less than a mile from ATT sub-station, plus being virtually right next to Silicon Valley might have something to do with it, but I'm not sure about that.
i7's are neat yeh? Especially the rendering, speeds.
Now I'm not afraid to go ahead and hit the PhotoRender Projection button anymore:-))

lec

[vistasp]

Yes Lec, having the i7 is a real pleasure! Am still transferring things over so when I go back to my old machine for anything I suddenly find it extra slow.

As for internet speeds - what passes for broadband out here is, essentially, anything other than dial-up. And who wants to think of those days with squaking modems and people giving you hell for tying up the phone!

[Barry Kelly]

vistasp wrote:

lec1212 wrote:
Only took about 15 minutes to download zip of lcf. which was nice.
Wonder why it took Barry three hours??

Wow, that must be a pretty fast connection you have!

As I recall, it took me a lot longer than three hours when I first downloaded it. Also, with a torrent, you're dependant on the availability and upload speed of your seeds & peers.

Must have been a seeds and peers thing.
I think it ranged from 2 - 6 while it was downloading.
It got up to the blistering speed of about 30kbs at times.
When we are awake down under the rest of the world sleeps it seems!

And the extracting problem is a PC v Mac thing.
Someone here with a Mac has kindly offered to extract it for me (thanks Rod).

Barry.

[Anonymous]

Now, if we just knew who that Rod was:-))
I've noticed, it has lots of US stuff in it.
It must be with different ID's because did not get duplicate library report, but it sure took a bit to load, so can see why you would want to strip out the unneeded parts.
Also I modified my upload sharing to only I think 8, until it was done, then upped it to higher bit rate and let it run for a while for others, to make up for my greedy download sharing set up.

[vistasp]

Barry, could the extracted library be simply zipped and uploaded to dropbox or any other sharing site for all of us poor PC puppets? I'm sure there are a lot of us who would be interested.

Andy has warned that we'll face problems with some characters so it'll be at our own risk. Maybe Win7 will be better able to handle it than XP was. Or not.

[Barry Kelly]

vistasp wrote:
Barry, could the extracted library be simply zipped and uploaded to dropbox or any other sharing site for all of us poor PC puppets? I'm sure there are a lot of us who would be interested.

Only if that is OK with Andy.

vistasp wrote:
Andy has warned that we'll face problems with some characters so it'll be at our own risk. Maybe Win7 will be better able to handle it than XP was. Or not.

I won't know for a week or so until I see Rod at our next user group meeting.

Barry.

[vistasp]

Barry wrote:
Only if that is OK with Andy.

What say you, Andy? All guarantees of what works (or doesn't), stand null and void.

[Rod Jurich]

Barry and others ...........

Andy has said it is ok, therefore click this link and your d'load of the zipped library will begin.

[Barry Kelly]

Thanks very much Rod and Andy.
It took much longer to unzip than it did to download!

Some problems with some files saying they need a password to extract them.
A few water textures and all of the files in ... 08 Openings\08 10 00 Doors and Frames\08 14 00 Wood Doors.

And many of the lamp objects in ... 26 Electrical\26 50 00 Lighting\26 56 00 Exterior Lighting

If you try to put any password in a message states that the files are read only, hidden or system files (my guess would be read only).
But without the real password they won't extract.

No choice except to skip these files.
Not a problem though as there is plenty to keep me busy for a very long time.

Thanks again,
Barry.